About last night

The only way the buildup to Sunday night’s revival of “The X-Files” could’ve been better last week is if Klatuu had tossed UFO beer cans across the White House lawn. First, the “alien megastructure” debate over KIC 8462852 was reenergized when analysts eliminated comet swarms as a cause of the dimming phenomenon surrounding a star located 1,480 light years from Earth. Maybe, as hypothesized in October, ET engineers really are building massive off-world platforms after all.

Then came the Caltech researchers announcing the inferential existence, based on the orbital patterns of Kuiper Belt debris, of a Neptune-sized “Planet Nine.” Although this thing is projected to have a mass 10 times greater than Earth, the real spine-tingler was its predicted 15,000 year solar orbit. That could mean Planet Nine is actually Nibiru, of alleged Sumerian lore, home to the antediluvian Anunnaki gold-hunters who came to Earth and created homo sapien hybrids for slave laborers to work the gold mines.

Finally, last Friday just after 5 p.m., probably after the supervisors had knocked off for the weekend, somebody at the CIA tweeted “Take a Peek Into Our #XFiles” and posted links to Agency documents that have been in public circulation since Jimmy Carter was president. Nothing new here for the hardcores, but hey, get a load of that report dated 8/1/52: “It is recommended that CIA surveillance of subject matter [UFOs], in coordination with proper authorities of primary operational concern at ATIC, be continued. It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as ‘confirmatory’ of the soundness of ‘unpublished facts’ in the hands of the U.S. Government.”

What does it mean when nostalgia is a TV show whose slogans included “Trust No One” and “Deny Everything”?/CREDIT: ngabo.org

Say what? The CIA wanted to protect us from our alarmist tendencies? Why would they say that? What would we have to be alarmed about? Unpublished facts? Which unpublished facts? Proper authorities? By whose definition is authority proper?

Anyhow, yeah, I was rooting for the reprise of Mulder and Scully to be as exciting as the return of the Nibiru slavers. Maybe it was nostalgia for the infancy of the World Wide Web, when consumers were still hostage to limited options like brick-and-mortar, and Art Bell’s paranoia ruled midnight radio. As cultural buzzwords, “The X-Files” and Roswell evolved simultaneously, and who could say for sure just how much the former factored into the USAF’s PR problem with the latter, when the brass looked desperately moronic in blaming the 1947 incident on military crash-test dummy experiments in 1952. Such halcyon days, the Nineties:

Uncounted Arizona residents from Prescott to Phoenix wandering outside to catch a glimpse of comet Hale-Bopp only to be confronted instead by a humongous flying boomerang. A California suicide cult attempting to climb aboard via applesauce and strychnine. Paranoia everywhere, Oklahoma City, Waco, Ruby Ridge, so unlike today. Everybody got caught up in “The Truth Is Out There” craze – even at a White House birthday party for John Podesta.

But you can’t go back. Even with music by Mark Snow. And even with script writers possessing a daunting command of their material. And even with clever contemporary hooks like the Jimmy Kimmel-Barak Obama 2015 chat about space aliens, and more generic swipes at cable-channel demagoguery (“What Bill O’Reilly knows about the truth could fill an eyedrop”). “Life,” as Mulder 2016 moped, “has become a punchline.”

De Void knows a few things about punchlines, and expects no satisfactory answers from The Great Taboo — not in fiction and certainly not from this fool’s errand of a blog. But Sunday night’s latest convoluted tangle of “X-Files” conspiracies reminded me why I’d drifted away from the show a couple of seasons of seasons before its 2002 wrap. After a nine-year run and two movies, it became pretty clear the writers lacked an end game, then as now. They boxed themselves onto such an incoherent ledge, De Void didn’t care much anymore. And unlike 20 years ago, today I can get all this stuff – “false flag” operations, hybrid aliens, “a venal conspiracy of men against humanity,” as Mulder put it – from the Internet.

When you dump all this junk into the same laundry basket, as last night’s “My Struggle” episode did, it goes down like fast food. To wit: Mulder spends a decade chasing space aliens and it takes less than an hour to persuade him to rewrite his whole world view? Also: Somebody please tell me “the truth is out there” and “I want to believe” really didn’t make their way into the dialogue. Somebody tell me the evil talk-show guy didn’t actually say there’s a plot to quote “take over America.” But maybe that’s already happened. One of “The X-Files” biggest sponsors last night was Scientology. Maybe the teachings of Xenu filtered into the narrative. How would we know, one way or the other?

That said, De Void will probably tune in again, hoping for a glimpse of the A-game, Michael Jordan’s post-up jumper with the Washington Wizards. No point in trying to figure out what the writers haven’t, either. Twenty years of eroding standards on every front and all I need anymore is that occasional moment hanging in empty space like a little diamond. (That image isn’t original — I lifted it from Sartre.)

26 comments on “About last night”

Scott Waring is part of a vast Government Conspiracy. As Dr. Science™* pointed out, the hamsters -themselves- run on Zero Point Energy™! By some unknown means, they generate low-energy neutrons that power their cells directly. This also provides direct brain-to-brain connections with other hamsters. There are rumors of a new film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, to be called: “Planet of the Hamsters”.
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* He has a -Masters Degree-…..in science.
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Scott Waring has just announced that he’s spotted a petrified, transgender hamster on Mars! He further claims that the hamster’s running wheel is powered by zero-point energy. Which is … dissonant, somehow but anyway. Waring says that this discovery just goes to prove what he’s been saying all along: That the gorillas on Mars have been performing advanced research into rodent gender as a function of their exotic water for aeons. In fact, humans are only just beginning to broach this advanced research. The hamsters, says Waring, will surely be arriving at Earth’s orbit any day now. Waring said that their purpose is anyone’s guess but it’s certainly because they want to harvest the sun’s energy by absorbing it into their salt licks.
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Because zero-point or something like that.
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Meanwhile, i’ve been getting comfy with 25-year-old Roswell old-timer interviews on the youtube.

@Billy,
…It depends on the municipal water’s original source. Nowadays you’d be more likely to see him humping every object in the cage while growing an extra pair of cahones, or running in the wheel so fast it produces sparks, or attempting auto-erotic suicide.

This conversation makes me realize how insulated I’ve been. For the past year or so I’ve been totally preoccupied with subjecting my male hamster to high doses of tap water to see if he’ll grow a vagina.

@ab uno disce omnes,
I’ll pitch it to Chris the next time I see him 🙂
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While the ‘junk’ DNA idea has been debunked, the human genome isn’t full decoded yet, and there may be (my theory) some portions that can’t be decoded by current techniques. IIRC, they’re thinking about what does the ‘directing’ of the active (protein-coding) genes. Research has reduce the percentage of ‘junk’ DNA from 98% to 20%, and that number is dropping. It may be, that there are other functions of DNA besides protein coding. The subject is vastly complicated, and I don’t even have -half- the knowledge required to understand it.
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@Larry,
Yeah. Another potentially catastrophic example of the hubris of modern science. They think that just by moving genes around they can control the forces of mutation and evolution…which are constantly, UNIVERSALLY in motion, no matter what you’ve isolated in a petri dish. Blindly playing with the forces of creation can have disastrous consequences.

@Bill, etc.
Short answer: Yes. I watched enough nature shows to see creatures that couldn’t have been imagined, even in the sci-fi authors wildest drug-induced fantasies.
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I included drug companies in the ‘chemical companies’ group, but I neglected to include biochemistry (unless genetic modification needs its own classification; I don’t know).
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Anyway, the exact taxonomy isn’t important. Human greed overides common sense, scientific evidence, morality, and reasonable caution.
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Robert Sapolsky is a world-renowned neuroendocrinologist*. I recall a lecture (there’s a series online) in which he said that we may eventually find chemical imbalances in the brain that cause violent behavior. I would add: any kind of behavior.
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I also recall a theory that our so-called ‘junk’ DNA is actually inactive, but legitimate code, much like code that is commented out in a computer program. This code may be activated and deactivated at will, if you know the procedures. This possibility has fascinating and terrifying implications. Fascinating, because we might gain access to the entirety of human history, and terrifying, because we may turn ourselves into monsters. Imagine a race of human slaves, fertilized in vitro, programmed to mature quickly, and die at a given age. How about an army of emotionless automatons, with no fear. Cheaper than cyborgs, and expendable. GM people, a psychopaths wet dream**.

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He wears an neuroendocrinologist’s suit,
And he wears an neuroendocrinologist’s hat.
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** Hitler presaged this when he started giving his soldiers speed.
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P.S. I met Chris Carter on a flight to/from LA. This was years before the X-Files, when he wrote for a surfing mag. Not much conversation, not much in common:)

@ Bill Pilgrim
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“Funny thing is, ‘grand conspiracies’ are no longer required.”
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I’ve been saying for years that it’s not a “conspiracy” or a “theory” if it’s right out in the open.
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Back in 2005 I would try to tell friends and business associates that Libor was obviously being rigged. Probably 90% of them accused me of being a conspiracy theorist. Needless to say I was serving up a lot of Crow dinners to them by 2012-13 when the Libor rate fixing scandal was finally exposed to the general public.
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http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-denver-international-airport/
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I got stuck in that damn airport for 7 hours a few years ago thanks to ScareTran’s incompetence and having nothing else to do I went to the “Great Hall” in the airport and looked at the capstone. FYI- There is no such thing as the “New World Airport Commission”. But it’s right there on the capstone directly underneath the Masonic symbol and the date it was dedicated and placed there.
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So what does “theory” have to do with that reality?

@Bill Pilgrim,
+1,
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Funny thing is, ‘grand conspiracies’ are no longer required. We live in a world of pseudo conspiracies. It’s no longer necessary for certain groups to have secret meetings in smoke-filled rooms (though I do wish they smoked more). When you have common interests, you tend to buy uh, lobby for similar laws. Corporations want more profits, the LE/IC wants less secrecy for citizens (and more for them), the gov/mil complex wants more control of other countries, etc. Corporations do this by proxies (like ALEC, and think tanks). It’s similar to how the record companies got around payola. It all comes down to money in the end.
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All of the Worlds problems are solvable with surprisingly simple technologies, except for greed. It’s clear that the Elites don’t give a Rat’s Sorry Ass about the Unwashed Masses, as long as they do their dirty work.
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The great irony in all of this was well stated by Leadbelly:
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“We’re in the same boat, brother, We’re in the same boat, brother, And if you shake one end, you’re gonna rock the other, it’s the same boat, brother.”
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Does anyone really think that it’s possible to escape a world catastrophe? Even without natural disasters (comets, asteroids, earthquakes, etc.), even without climate change or nuclear war, the worlds chemical companies alone can easily bring the demise of humankind. The last to remain will be the primitive tribes who still live in relative isolation, thus completing the circle of the Great Human Experiment.
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Damn those #@!^%&* alien bastards for seeding us here.
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@Billy,
An insightful piece.
Yeah. Forced alien genetic hybridization is so 90’s.
There’s much more current material for grand conspiracies to make the new series hum, and cause one to watch events with a wary eye.
A handful of global elites rig the world economy so they can suck in more wealth than half the world’s population, causing numerous countries to plunge into a depression, leading to mass rioting and anarchy, while physicians everywhere prescribe highly addictive opioids and antidepressants that somewhat pacify the masses, dumbing and numbing them just enough to not notice or care that social welfare institutions everywhere are collapsing due to defunding by the elites.
Those who don’t take to opioids are mass-marketed electronic devices (back engineered from technology retrieved from a crashed alien triangular ship) that emit addictive subliminal messages compelling conformity to authority so that when a critical mass of the population is sufficiently pacified and distracted the sinister endgame (global depopulation) can be implemented: the creation of mass hysteria by the unleashing of a mysterious mosquito-born virus (which mysteriously originated near the area of an underground UFO base in the Peruvian Andes) that causes a particularly horrible birth defect, forcing millions to forgo pregnancy and turn their thwarted familial yearnings into support for an authoritarian demagogue who will make their nation great again while the global elites buy up small island retreats worldwide in order to escape the coming social apocalypse…etc, etc.
Now THAT would be worth paying attention to.

@Billy,
If you were Scott Waring, you wouldn’t be able to sleep at night without some chemical assistance.
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@Anyone,
I don’t recall seeing the ‘private secret UFO research project’ angle before. Is it from conspiracy theorists or SCI-FI authors?
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Nevertheless, it’s nice to see Mulder & Scully back. It brings back memories of Topic No. 1 in ‘around the water cooler’ discussions way back when.
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The shows outside the overarching theme were fun, but I never watched with enough focus to keep up with the conspiracy.
I am pleased that KIC 8462852, too, just won’t go away, even surviving (self-serving”) SETI’s attempt to bury it.

I watched _maybe_ five episodes of the entire series. The buzz being what it was, i learned enough as the seasons went on that the bookshelves of the script writers and i had a lot in common. (OK, maybe they weren’t so picky, but nothing i heard about was new.) I should have been a big time fan, i guess i’m saying, but i never felt the quickening. I haven’t seen any previews for the new series and don’t expect i’ll tune in.
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Never seen Independence Day, either. Yeah, i’m a boring old fart. Now, get off my damned lawn! I’ve got some long-ago declassified documents to pore over.
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PS: Scott Waring has spotted a family of gorillas on Mars!

As soon as I saw the preview for the new X-Files with Scully telling Mulder; “There’s a monster in it”, I knew the writers had jumped the True Detective Season 1 shark.
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I.E. – Rust Cohle: “there’s a monster at the end of it”.
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Granted, True Detective Season 1 was a screenwriting masterpiece so it’s hard to blame the writers for the lift. But it is a lift nonetheless.
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But I watched it last night and I think they’re headed towards a revisit of the alleged 1954 Eisenhower – ET meeting at Muroc Field.